Data Points: How We Eat
The rise of TV cooking shows and culinary/nutrition content in magazines insures that Americans are constantly bombarded with pictures, ads and articles about food. Yet for all the focus on what we...
View ArticleCupcake Nation
“Would you like a free cupcake?” Duh. The no-brainer question stops sidewalk traffic as Sophie Kallinis LaMontagne, wearing her signature hot pink apron and matching lipstick, holds out a ribboned...
View ArticleBooze Billboard Comes to Life at Night With Luminous UV Paint
Australian brewer Coopers and ad agency kwp! Advertising recently commissioned Chicago street artist and illustrator Pose to create a "Life After Dark" billboard that's visible only at night. The...
View ArticleVodka Brand's Window Washers Invite Office Workers Out for a Drink
Ad agency Amalgamated and Ultimat Vodka got guys in business suits to pose as window washers in Chicago and New York and had them ride up and down high-rise office towers holding signs that read "Have...
View ArticleJennie Garth and Luke Perry Join Old Navy's '90210' Campaign
Which '90s celebs will Old Navy drag from the vault next, you ask? Well, it looks like they're sticking with the old Beverly Hills, 90210 cast for now. Crispin Porter + Bogusky follows up last week's...
View ArticleLondon 2012 Olympic Logo: Was It Really So Bad After All?
With the London Olympics now in its final days, Fast Company's Co.Design blog has an interesting interview with two executives from Wolff Olins, the design firm behind the much-maligned (though, by...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Velodrome
Any Chemical Brothers video is going to have some stiff competition in the talent department, since Michel Gondry and Spike Jonze are among the gifted folks who've created videos for the electronica...
View Article9 Awesome Cat Commercials That Drive the Internet Wild
Today, for those of you living under a rock, is World Cat Day. But of course, every day is cat day on the Internet. In honor of our feline friends, and their uncanny ability to send Internet users...
View ArticleMake Sweet, Sweet Love (and Lots of Babies), Says Mentos
In today's world of 7 billion people, you rarely see ad campaigns that encourage people to fire up the baby cannon. However, Singapore has a low birthrate. So, to goose the population, the country is...
View ArticleReader's Digest Association Hits Brakes, Again
More cost-saving moves are afoot at Reader’s Digest Association after what CEO Robert Guth called “disappointing” results in the second quarter of 2012. The global publisher and direct marketer has...
View ArticleCoke Zero Awards U.S. Creative Business
Droga5 has plenty of time to celebrate its Coke Zero win, as the new agency's first big campaign isn't expected until March. The New York shop won U.S. creative responsibilities on the brand after a...
View ArticleCoke Zero Awards U.S. Creative Business
Droga5 has plenty of time to celebrate its Coke Zero win, as the new agency's first big campaign isn't expected until March. The New York shop won U.S. creative responsibilities on the brand after a...
View ArticlePortrait: The Culinary Agency
Specs Who Alex Kakoyiannis, founder What Food lifestyle agency Where Terroni restaurant, Los Angeles Is the gastronomic craze hot enough to warrant a shop focused on foodies? Alex Kakoyiannis thinks...
View ArticlePerspective: Spread 'Em
If you’re one of the millions who grab a hot slice of toast and drop it on a plate each morning, be aware: What you are about to do next touches on a sweeping social, agricultural and political...
View ArticleJon Hamm and Lena Dunham Pitch 'New Yorker' iPhone App
There's oh so much self-consciously postmodern meta-comical hipsterism on display in this video promoting The New Yorker's new iPhone app. Given the self-consciously postmodern hipster bent of the...
View ArticleDraftfcb Writer Living on Olympic Sponsors' Products Alone
In a stunt that almost looks like a protest through the right pair of eyes, Draftfcb Chicago copywriter Terin Izil is raising money for kids with muscular dystrophy by limiting herself to "eating,...
View ArticleGoogle Celebrates the Fast and Furious Future of the Internet
This is a few weeks old, but worth a mention—the fun introductory spot for Google Fiber by ad agency Venables, Bell & Partners in San Francisco. Google Fiber is the experimental broadband network...
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